Abstract:
We study the Stochastic Multi-armed Bandit problem under bounded arm-memory. In this setting, the arms arrive in a stream, and the number of arms that can be stored in the memory at any time, is bounded. The decision-maker can only pull arms that are present in the memory. We address the problem from the perspective of two standard objectives: 1) regret minimization, and 2) best-arm identification. For regret minimization, we settle an important open question by showing an almost tight guarantee. We show cumulative regret in expectation for single-pass algorithms for arm-memory size of , where is the number of arms. For best-arm identification, we provide an -PAC algorithm with arm memory size of and optimal sample complexity.
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